A Greene County man whose home detention was revoked in favor of imprisonment will now be sent to a work-release facility
after the Indiana Court of Appeals found that the man’s financial situation and documented mental illnesses were
mitigating factors in his sentencing.

A Bedford man who was told he faced fines of $300 a day because of political signs he posted on his property has filed a federal
lawsuit against the city with the backing of the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana.

For any lawyers interested in taking a turn on the bench, a nonprofit that provides services for troubled teens needs attorneys
to serve as volunteer judges for its Teen Court programs in the Indianapolis area. The judges oversee the proceedings and
counsel the first-time offenders.

A Richmond man’s request to have his conviction for battery against two police officers overturned was denied Monday
by a panel of the Indiana Court of Appeals, which found that the officers had lawfully entered the man’s home
because they suspected him of being armed and dangerous.

The U.S. Supreme Court will take up transgender rights for the first time in the case of a Virginia school board that wants
to prevent a transgender teenager from using the boys' bathroom at his high school.

After a couple’s contentious battle in court over custody of their children and possession of their home, the Indiana
Court of Appeals decided Friday their marital estate had not been correctly divided. However, the appellate court affirmed
the decision to award custody of the children to their father.

A St. Louis jury on Thursday awarded a California woman more than $70 million in her lawsuit alleging that years of using
Johnson & Johnson's baby powder caused her cancer, the latest case raising concerns about the health ramifications
of extended talcum powder use.

A jury delivered an extraordinary blow to the government in a long-running battle over the use of public lands when it acquitted
all seven defendants involved in the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in rural southeastern Oregon.

A jury correctly ruled against an employee of the railroad company CSX Transportation Inc. who sued his employer after an
on-the-job accident that resulted in severe back pain, citing evidence that proved the pain existed before the accident, the
7th Circuit Court of Appeals decided Thursday.

Although the term of her commitment in an Indiana mental health facility had already expired, the Indiana Court of Appeals
chose Thursday to hear a woman’s moot appeal of her commitment and affirm it, writing that the case needed to be heard
as a matter of great public importance.

A student injured in a stage collapse last year during a musical at an Indiana high school put herself at risk by participating
in the show, the school said in court records countering a lawsuit from the student's parent.

The state is continuing to defend Indiana’s fetal-remains statute that a federal judge blocked after a U.S. Supreme
Court decision this year reinforced prohibitions against laws restricting a woman’s right to abortion. The state is
relying in part on “astonishing” religious practices to make its case.